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A Critical Reflection On The Criticism Of Hannah Arendt 's Totalitarianism

Posted on:2015-05-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C KongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2176330431990494Subject:Scientific Socialism and the international communist movement
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Hannah Arendt is a great thinker,with the most personality andpersonal independence of the twentieth Century.Hannah Arendt’smasterpieces "the origins of totalitarianism"is recognized as thebeginning of totalitarian study in the twentieth Century.After nearly60years, On the one hand, The practice has proved that Ahrendt’s criticismof Totalitarianism has two sides:On the one hand,which manifests theprofound and wise of Ahrendt’s thought, but is also exposed some confusionand misunderstanding shouldn’t be happen;On the other hand, totalitarianshadow still didn’t tell the world completely farewell.and variationsvariants are in breeding, so we still has the practical significance tomake critical reflection on the book.This thesis takes "the origins of totalitarianism" as the core text,Tomake a critical reflection on Ahrendt’s critical thinking oftotalitarianism.The full text is divided into introduction and fourchapters, and the main viewpoints and logic thinking of overall are asfollows:The first chapter mainly introduces Ahrendt’s life and academicactivities;The second chapter mainly analyzes and expounds the thoughtabout the origin of the totalitarian.The third chapter mainly analyzesand expounds totalitarian essence and practice of Ahrendt’sideologies.The fourth chapter focuses critical analysis on Ahrendt’sthinking about totalitarianism.In this paper:First of all,we should knowwhat about the totalitarian and what was Arendt said,Secondly, to analyzethe nature of her research conclusion and non, finally we will clingrational criticize perspective to cognize the misunderstandings for thecritique of totalitarianism.Whether it is subjective or objective facts,Ahrendt has made a theoretical error: the absolute idea, which isconsidered a "only right" political practice.And deny other forms ofpolitical practice, that only her own experiences, the paper reasoningis correct.So confused many political concept.Ahrendt put "anti Semitism","imperialism" and "totalitarian" three system in parallel. then refers"totalitarian" to the Soviet political in the period of Stalin.According to "the origins of totalitarianism ",from the Soviet Unionshe made the conjecture, dubbed the "communism".However, not all of theproletarian socialist movement and the goal of communism like that.At thesame time, Ahrendt ascribe the totalitarian theory as Marx, reality willbe identical to the Soviet model of socialism socialist.We know theacquisition of world socialist movement both with similarities, andcompletely different policies and ideas.Therefore, When Ahrendt is in thediscussion, despite the facts is really, but it is only for a specific period of the Soviet Union, so there is no universal significance.This paper is divided into four parts:totalitarianism origin, essence,practice and critical reflection,Have a definite object in view ofAhrendt’s totalitarian critical problems and mistakes of anti criticism,this is also the starting point and the foothold of this paper mainly.
Keywords/Search Tags:Totalitarianism, origin, nature, practice, criticism
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